Massive Facebook bug disrupts status updates, photos and messages

Facebook users couldn’t post status updates, share photos or send messages on the social network Monday in one of the biggest bugs to ever affect the service.

Countless users reported being unable to use most of the site’s main features for over two hours, with many taking to Twitter to complain. Most who tried to share links or post updates were met with a pop-up that read, “There was a problem updating your status. Please try again in a few minutes.”

“Liking” things both on Facebook and around the web was also affected.

The bug appears to have been global in scope, potentially affecting all of the site’s 1.2 billion users.

Most of the site’s features started working again shortly before 10 a.m. EST, although the company’s ubiquitous Like button still seemed out of commission on some websites. Facebook has so far remained silent on what caused the outage.

Already under fire for perceived privacy breaches, this latest setback for the company will likely make users of the site even more apprehensive about making it the hub of their online lives. But as we have seen before, Facebook users may grumble but they usually don’t leave.